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B NOELLE BUTTON 'SBTTINQ TOOL. No. 470,628.

UNITED STATES:

PATENT Orrrcn.

ElVALD NOELLE, OF LUDENSCHEID, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT AUGUSTUSPANGHAUD, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BUTTON-,SEiTTING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,628, dated March 8,1892. Application filed October 21 1891. Serial No. 409,396- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EWALD NOELLE, a sub; ject of the German Emperor,residing at 47 Kolnerstrasse, Liidenscheid, lVestphalia, in the GermanEmpire, have invented certain Apparatus for Securing Buttons to Garmentsor other Articles, of which the following is a specification. k F

This invention relates to apparatus mainly intended for securing buttonsto garments or other articles, wherein the ends of a Wire sta ple(passed through a disk situated on one side of'theclothor material towhich the button is to be secured) are caused to pass through the clothor material, the said ends being then turned through the shank or loopof the butf ton, as hereinafter described. To effect this the disk andthe staple, which is passed through it, are placed on a support orholder therefor, and the button is held by a holder provided with arecess or recesses situated on either side of the shank or loop of thebutton, so that when the cloth or material to which the button is to beattached is placed between the said holders andthey are brought towardeach other by a leveror screw-press or other suitable device the ends ofthe staple enter the recesses on each side of the shank or loop, and,bybearin g on thesides of the said recess oirecesses, are caused to passthrough the shank or loop and then to be turried down, so as to securethe button to the cloth or material.

I will describe, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the mannerin which this invention may be carried into effect; but I do not limitmyself to the precise details which Is'hall describe and illustrate.

Figure 1 represents in side elevation, partly in section, a machineconstructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 represents in plan thepreferred form of support for the disk and shank. Fig. 3 represents inhalf-section and half-elevation a form of holder for a button of aring-form; and Fig. 4 is a plan of under side of the lower end thereof,drawn to alarger scale. Figs. 5 and6 are elevations, Fig. 5

A is the body part of the press, in which slides the plunger B, to thelower end of which the button-holderis secured by the screwb. The saidplunger can be moved down by the lever 0, connected to the top of theplunger by the pin 0 and centered by the pin cZto one end of a link D,the other end of which is centered by the'pin d to the body part A, andthe said plunger is returned to its raised'position by the spring b E isthe holder for the button, carrying parts which grip the button betweenthem,so that the shank is situated in a curved recess or curved recessese, whose sides, when the press is operated,cause the ends of the stapleto be bent through the shank and to be. then turned down after they havepassed through the shank. r

F is the holder or support for the disk and staple, which supportFpreferably consists of the part f, projected upward in the case f by aspringf f is a cup for the disk, with a slotf in it for the passage ofthe staple, which rests at its bent part on the anvil f", the endspassing through holes in the. disk, as indicated by Fig. 10. f is ascrew passing through the case and taking into a slot in the movablepart, so that the said screw acts as a stop. If the ends of the wirestaple be turned over so as only to be parallel with the opposite sidesthereof, the button is liable to be detached by pulling by reason of theends of the staple straightening out. cesses e is or are directed inwardat the parts 6 (see Fig. 4) with which the respective staple ends lastcome into contact, so that the staple ends are directed or curvedinward, as shown in Fig. 12, toward the opposite sides of the stapleafter the said ends have passed the To prevent this the recess orrebutton, and the other ends of the said arms.

or levers are pressed upon by a spring 9 between them to hold thebutton, the last-named ends when pressed together opening the jaws g toallow the button to be inserted or released. When the buttons are madeof a ring form with a shank crossing from side to side of the ring, asshown in Fig.11, the end of U the button, and also having therein thecurved recess or recesses e to turn over and inward the ends of the wirestaple as aforesaid If the holder is to receive solid-topped buttons, itmay be made as shown in Figs. 5to 8. Itis provided with a divided plateH for receiving the button, the parts It 71. of the plate sliding inslots 11 in the holder, the part h opening out from the part h by thespring '6 acting on it, when the plate is protruded I: from the holder,so that the button can be 1 placed with its shank between the plates andits under side resting on the said plates; lhe plates have in theirmeeting edges the; recesses 71 to receive the shank and on their underside the recesses e to direct and turn over and inward the ends of thewire staple,

. as aforesaid. When the button is put in place on the parts of theplate Hand it and the button are moved back into the slot '5 in theholder, the said parts close together and hold the button firmly inposition while the: staple is passed through the shank. h are stops forlimiting the motion of the; plate II in either direction. 1 The holdersmay be made removable from the plunger of the press, so that holders tosuit various kinds of buttons can be inserted as required.

The apparatus may of course be used to atcertained the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed,I declare thatwhat I claim is nation, with the staple-holder, of the two-partbutton-holder, having one part pivoted to the other end, provided withgrooves or recesses for bending the staple ends, said grooves being atthe parts which act last upon the staple curved inward, whereby thepoints of the staple pass into the' fabric in an oblique direction tothe surface thereof and are turned toward each other, substantially asand for 'the purposes specified.

' 2. In a machineof the character described, a button-holder comprising,in combination, a divided plate having one part pivoted to the other,aspring tending to separate.the two parts, recesses being formed in andbetween the two parts forbending the staple, and other recesses for theshank of the button, and a slotted support in which said plate slidesand whereby the two parts of the plate are firmly gripped and heldtogether duringthe operation of attaching a button, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two'subscribing witnesses.

EWALD NOELLE.

Witnesses:

- FRANK HESSENBRUCH, EDW. ESSENWEIN.

Barman.

1. In a machine for attaching buttons to ar-' holes of cloth and othermaterial, the combi-

